518:(Modern Architectural Research Group), which operated from 1933 to 1937. The group came into existence at the prompting of Giedion, after Shand wrote to him. Shand, Coates, Yorke and three other members of the Mars Group attended their first CIAM congress in 1933, which took place on board an ocean-going liner journeying from Marseilles to Athens in July that year.
498:(CIAM) in 1928, in the promotion of the cause of modernist architecture and town planning. Giedion was its first and only general secretary. There had been no British participants in the first CIAM conference in 1928. But, in January 1929, Shand wrote to Gropius suggesting Howard Robinson, head of the
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I have frightful nightmares, and no wonder for I am haunted by a gnawing sense of guilt in having, in however minor and obscure degree, helped to bring about, anyhow encouraged and praised, the embryo searchings that have now materialized into a monster neither of us could have foreseen:
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in 1957, Shand wrote him to offer his congratulations, and Aalto wrote back saying of himself and Shand that "We are the last surviving soldiers of the
Salvation Army". On his trip to the UK, Aalto visited Shand in Cambridge, where he spent his retirement.
456:. His positive response to the exhibition concentrated more on the overall effect of lightness, fragility, and uniformity. The exhibition had set out its mission of, in Shand's words, “taming and humanizing the growing monster” of Franco-German design.
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furniture factory which made the furniture sold in the UK by Finmar. Shand retained a friendship with Aalto, and as Aalto spoke little
English until the 1940s, they conversed and corresponded in German. Aalto would later tell his biographer,
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was published in 1930 and featured many of those buildings he had encountered in
Germany during the late 1920s, arguing that there the cinema had emerged as a separate design typology, not an adaptation of traditional theatre design.
479:, keeping correspondence with each of them. He also developed close links with architects back in the UK, encouraging their participation in the modernist debate. Shand translated from German to English Gropius's 1925 book
583:(1927): "This is frankly a book of prejudices, for all food is a question of likes and dislikes. One may be tolerant about religion, politics, and a hundred and one other things, but not about the food that one eats."
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Contemporary architecture (= the piling up of gigantic children's toy bricks in utterly dehumanized and meaningless forms), 'Art' and all that. It is no longer funny; it is frightening, all-invading menace.
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Despite his early enthusiasm for modernism in design and architecture, by the late 1950s he was far more critical towards the results of modern architecture, writing that:
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Shand was sued for bankruptcy in March 1933, with the court case taking place in August that year. That same year, however, with
Geoffrey Boumphrey (a fellow member of the
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of 1934–5, was Shand's attempt to document and place the contemporary architecture in Europe. In seven parts it set out ideas on the evolution of
Continental modernism.
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school of architecture and Shand's own cousin, as the
British CIAM representative. When this did not work out, Shand recommended Japan-born, Canada-educated architect
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regiment, and immediately afterwards, due to his fluent French and German, he was appointed as superintendent of all German prisoners' camps in France.
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Shand's second marriage was to Agatha Alys Fabre-Tonnerre, in 1920, with whom he had a daughter named Sylvia Doris
Rosemary. They divorced in 1926.
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Georgette Thérèse Edmée Avril, whom he married in 1926. They divorced in 1931, without having had any children.
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Kevin Davies, "Finmar and the
Furniture of the Future: The Sale of Alvar Aalto’s Plywood Furniture in the UK, 1934–1939",
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European modernist architecture, including the German architect
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department store in London. In 1935 he visited Finland with Jack Pritchard and Graham Reid and saw Aalto's
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Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968
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323:in April 1916, with whom he had his only son,
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955:Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
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450:The Architectural Review
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